![]() Typically, a vessel that size would have 500 sailors on board. The Russian defence ministry said the crew was evacuated, but “the ship was seriously damaged” and measures were being taken to tow it back to port. The southern military command said Russian rescue ships were hampered by ammunition exploding on board as well as bad weather that caused the Moskva to start sinking. The launchers are mounted on trucks stationed near the coast and, according to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, the missiles can hit targets up to 280km (175 miles) away. The Neptune is an anti-ship missile that was recently developed by Ukraine and based on an earlier Soviet design. Ukraine’s southern military command later said it hit the Moskva with a Neptune missile on Wednesday, causing significant damage and the ship started sinking. The governor of Odesa said Ukrainian forces hit the vessel with missile strikes, while presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said “we don’t understand what happened”. ![]() The damage to the missile cruiser was caused by ammunition detonating “as a result of a fire”, the Russian defence ministry was quoted by state media on Thursday as saying, adding the cause of the blaze was being investigated. Russia said the Moskva was badly damaged by a fire that forced the warship’s evacuation but it was still afloat. Russia’s Black Sea flagship leading the naval assault on Ukraine has been “seriously damaged” by an explosion that Ukrainian officials said was the result of a missile strike. ![]()
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